What Thomas said. In particular, while we're really glad that many HNers like Starfighter, we were members of this community far before we were co-founders. We're keenly aware that a) HN is a community, not a marketing channel and b) the community frowns on saying the same thing over and over.
I'm CEO of a company and am pot committed to spending the next several years of my life repeating close variations of the same three things to anyone who will listen. ("How is that different from the last eight years, Patrick?" Answer: Previously I only had two things!) We would prefer people exercise their discretion in posting them to HN, to avoid boring anyone here.
Patrick, best of luck to you. With the success of Appointment Reminder (and consulting, and BCC . . .) I was very surprised to see you launching into something new. But your most recent "annual report" (which felt much more personal and vulnerable than usual) makes me glad you're trying to find something that makes you happy and motivated. I'm skeptical about Starfighter, with so many others trying to gamify and "reinvent" hiring, but you folks have the talent and audience to succeed, like Joel Spolsky with Stack Overflow. Thank you for all you've contributed to us programmers (which I still call myself :-)---it has made a tremendous difference in my life and in many others. I hope Starfighter achieves everything you are dreaming for it.
Oh, we do; that's what I spend all my time on. But there must be some reason behind your comment, and I'd be happy to discuss it with you at hn@ycombinator.com if you'd like. (Just not here, though, as the topic at hand is game-driven recruiting.)
dang, "reply" is not available for your reply to A07bei3s - I suggest it should, and not to start that conversation (agree it should be done separately), but in case someone would like to reply to you.
With the speed that things pop on and off the front page these days some times it's nice to see frequent stories about the same thing at least when there is something new to tell. I hadn't heard about the microcorruption site until it was mentioned in the first post about starfighter.
I'm CEO of a company and am pot committed to spending the next several years of my life repeating close variations of the same three things to anyone who will listen. ("How is that different from the last eight years, Patrick?" Answer: Previously I only had two things!) We would prefer people exercise their discretion in posting them to HN, to avoid boring anyone here.